Chomsky: Humanity Imperiled - The Path to Disaster

[AverageJoe90]

4. Good article, but too much gloom-and-doom(and I'm not quite an optimist, either).

As bad as 5, 6, or 7 degrees of climate change, or worse, at least limited intercontinental nuclear war would be, neither of these two things would be enough to destroy humanity, or the planet for that matter. Civilization would potentially be in a lot of danger(especially in the long term for the former and the short term for the latter), but we would still survive; even a full-blown nuclear war wouldn't be able to quite take us all out, and that, frankly, that would make seven degrees of global warming look like a fucking cakewalk(I am seriously not joking, btw. BTW, You thought average high temperatures in the mid to upper 90s, instead of today's high 80s, low 90s in July would be bad for crops? It certainly would.....but the sun being blocked out for a whole year, maybe two, alone, would be even worse. And let's not mention what radioactive fallout would do to anything it touches, especially closest to the blast sites.).

Fighting climate change is good. So was(and still is!) the disarmament of nukes. But we can't afford to go too far into gloom-and-doom, especially not with the former....because it just doesn't work, no matter what some people out there may claim and/or believe.